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baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



We must now bid farewell to the hill-bank and turn to the 

 low-country. Of all the streams of North Yorkshire the Wiske 

 is the most sluggish, and has the least deeply-excavated stream 

 channel. It usually is more like a broad ditch than a typical 

 North Yorkshire rivulet. From Scarth Nick its course is at first 

 north-west, and afterwards due west through the low country for 

 ten miles, and then it turns abruptly to the south, and runs for 

 fifteen miles in that direction before it joins the Swale. Upon 

 the banks of a small branch of the Wiske, not far from the 

 eastern edge of the Central Valley, stands the town of North- 

 allerton, the central town of the North Riding, and the place 

 where its sessions are held, and its gaol is situated. This town 

 is about six miles distant from the nearest point of the hills, and 

 in its neighbourhood, within the bounds of this drainage district, 

 the following plants occur : 



Ranmiculus Lingua 



„ farviflorus 



HelUborus fcetidus 

 Fumaria pallidiflora 

 Alyssum calycimun 

 Nasturtium sylvestre 

 Viola hirta 

 Saponaria officinalis 

 . Cerastium aquaticum 

 Radiola Millegrana 

 Vicia sylvatica 

 Rubus plicatus 



Myriophyllum verticillatuin 

 Smyrnium Olusatrum 

 Cuscuta Epilimivi 

 Lifiaria minor 

 Veronica polita grandifiora 



„ Buxbaumii 

 Orobanche minor 

 Polygonum minus 

 Sagittaria sagittifolia 

 Butomus unibellatus 

 Hydi'ocharis Morsus-rance. 



A smair piece of boggy ground situated not far from the junc- 

 tion of the Wiske with the Swale, and called Newsham Carr, still 

 remaining in an aboriginal condition, yields the following plants : 



Ranunculus Lingua 



Cicuta virosa 



Rumex ILydrolapathum 



Lemna polyrrhiza 

 Carex teretiuscula 

 ,, strict a. 



The course of Codbeck, from the Osmotherley end of Scarth 

 Nick until it joins the Swale, is south-westward through, or not 

 far from, the undulated liassic tract which margins the hill- 

 country, the total length of the stream being about twenty-five 



